Parkland High School math and computer science teacher Brian Ding created the app, which could be available for free as early as the first week of July, he said.

The app will put school and teacher contact information, as well as school calendars, at users' fingertips, Ding said. He showed Parkland school directors what the app can do during last week's board workshop.

Assistant to the Superintendent for Operations Tracy E. Smith said Ding spent a week learning how to build an app and then got to work on Parkland's.

"I built it from scratch," Ding said of the app.

He'll teach high school students how to do the same. Ding said 12 students have signed up for his class on building iPhone and Droid apps.

If another school district sought to build a similar app and wanted access to the code he crafted, they'd have to go through Parkland, which owns the app, he said in response to a question from Marcus.

"It took a few hoops and about nine months to get all of this in place because of the quality control Apple has in place for its applications," Smith said.

Come July, only iPhone users will have access to the app. Ding said he is working on a version for Droid users, but isn't sure when that will be available.